I’m thinking of a scenario where you could spawn an automation automatically after another automation completes. Sort of like an event-driven automation, but the event is “automation XYZ has completed” Scenario: A “QA” automation starts once an “Issue to PR” automation completes. Perhaps they both use the same sandbox to keep context and state.

I believe we can already do that but it is not so user-friendly. Do you want to have like a graph where you can chain automations?

Yeah, it’s easy to do now if the user knows how to do it by having it trigger on particular github hooks

Yes, exactly. Some way to visualize chaining different automations together to ultimately show how your software factory comes alive

But probably the users don’t know how to do it. I think one thing we don’t want to do is create another agent orchestration UI, there’s lots of them already and AFAICT people don’t like using them that much

Maybe a bit of extra structured data saved to the automation when it has a “next step”. That UI could even show the multiple next steps.

Yeah - agree about workflow UIs, they look cool but not sure how much they are actually used. I think what I am trying to solve for this this scenario: • user has created several automations (maybe a dozen+) around their SDLC • things seem to be working, but they want a better way to organize (visually) these automations, maybe around SDLC stages or some other categorization ◦ pain point today: Automations are just a list in the UI Another interesting pain point -- how do you see a given 'task' (say a Jira issue you tag with

openhands

) flow through multiple Automations from start-->finish? Would be interesting if there was a task-centric way to say "this issue/task started with Automation 1 and proceeded successfully all the way through Automation 10"

Now that we have apps, I wonder if we can try vibe coding an app, and if it seems useful we can iterate on it?

that's a good idea -- I'm not sure of the exact solution here, so mostly just talking out loud, but Apps does provide a nice way to visualize 'the factory'.

Cc @modern-fireman-99755 we can add this to the factory onboarding once we have the basic flow down